Long Islander's Blog – February 2010 Archive (7)

Maine Sunday Telegram: Jonathan Carter Rebuts Angus King

This is a very important piece and is also posted in the NewsShare section of this website:

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/wind-project-comes-at-great-cost_2010-02-26.html

12/28/10

Maine Voices:…

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Added by Long Islander on February 28, 2010 at 9:08am — No Comments

Which is it Maine - Do you want higher or lower cost electricity? - It's one or the other.

Maine Economic Growth Council cites energy costs as an obstacle to Maine’s economic growth…

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Added by Long Islander on February 26, 2010 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

Energy Co-chair Hinck and Wind Industry Lawyer wife Browne not a CONFLICT OF INTEREST - Who is the Maine Ethics Commission?

2/25/10

In a unanimous vote today, the six person Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices said Rep. Jon Hinck, D-Portland, co-chairman of the legislative committee that deals with energy issues, does not have a conflict of interest in voting on legislation regarding wind power by virtue of the fact his wife, Juliet Browne, represents several wind power developers at the Verrill Dana law firm in Portland.

Here is information about…

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Added by Long Islander on February 25, 2010 at 9:35pm — 5 Comments

UMPI Website Introduces new section entitled Live Turbine Data

This long awaited section is brand new to the UMPI website (2/24/10) http://www.umpi.edu/wind

Although the $ 2 million turbine was commissioned nine months ago (see May 15, 2009 Bangor Daily News

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/106065.html), unfortunately there are no data…
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Added by Long Islander on February 24, 2010 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Who is First Wind?

Who are these guys? Cape Wind, EMI, UPC, First Wind, IVPC?

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Added by Long Islander on February 23, 2010 at 9:10pm — No Comments

Mr. Angus King Attempts to Marginalize Wind Critics in the Maine Sunday Telegram

You can read the whole Angus King opinion piece that was in today's Maine Sunday Telegram here:

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/wind-power-myths-blow-away_2010-02-19.html

In the piece, Mr. King names four "myths" and proceeds to debunk them. What is truly scary is that he presumably has people who could have helped him with this, yet his debunking is frankly an…

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Added by Long Islander on February 23, 2010 at 8:00pm — 15 Comments

Legislators decline to protect Mainers from health impact of wind turbines



For immediate release, February 9, 2010

Legislators decline to protect Mainers

from health impact of wind turbines

MEDIA…

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Added by Long Islander on February 9, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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